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From: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Mike <debian@good-with-numbers.com>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hotplug/Linux: update to new ip command syntax.
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:01:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1376931672.9708.91.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21010.19305.453261.252793@mariner.uk.xensource.com>

On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 17:44 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH] hotplug/Linux: update to new ip command syntax."):
> > From: Mike <debian@good-with-numbers.com>
> > 
> > This is Debian bug #705659. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705659
> > 
> > Mike provided the initial patch to tools/hotplug/Linux/xen-network-common.sh
> > and I extended it to catch some cases in vif-* too.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
> > Cc: Mike <debian@good-with-numbers.com>
> 
> Do we know whether this new syntax is backwards-compatible ?

Good question. Squeeze's ip(8) doesn't mention dev for "ip link show" in
the synopsis by virtue of not defining DEVICE anywhere but it does show
the use of dev later on and the tool accepts it. Likewise for "ip link
set". Given this, as Mike says, makes it impossible to name a device
"dev" it seems likely to be a documentation bug.

"ip addr flush" is correctly documented as needing the dev (by saying
"dev STRING" and not "DEVICE" , I didn't try without but I assume it
works since our scripts do that right now.

I wasn't easily able to come up with an older machine.

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-19 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-16 14:31 [PATCH] hotplug/Linux: update to new ip command syntax Ian Campbell
2013-08-16 19:30 ` Mike
2013-08-19 16:44 ` Ian Jackson
2013-08-19 17:01   ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2013-11-19 12:23     ` Ian Campbell
2013-11-20 14:37       ` Ian Jackson
2013-11-20 14:53         ` Ian Campbell
2013-11-20 18:50           ` George Dunlap
2013-11-21 10:01             ` Ian Campbell
2013-11-21 15:08               ` George Dunlap
2013-11-21 18:44                 ` Ian Jackson

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